Otanes (son of Sisamnes)

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Otanes
Ionian revolt

Otanes (

Achaemenid judge and later Satrap of Ionia during the reign of Darius the Great
, circa 500 BC.

Career

Otanes first replaced his father as judge, when the latter was condemned for corruption by

Asia Minor
:

First, however, (Darius) made Otanes governor of the people on the coast. Otanes' father Sisamnes had been one of the royal judges, and Cambyses had cut his throat and flayed off all his skin because he had been bribed to give an unjust judgment.

— Herodotus 5.25.[2]

Ionian revolt

Otanes was a major Achaemenid actor in the Ionian Revolt.
Cambyses II appointing Otanes as judge in place of his flayed father Sisamnes, after a painting by Peter Paul Rubens. The skin of his father appears above the seated Otanes.[3]
Otanes seated in the chair of the judge after his father was flayed (center).[4]

Otanes succeeded Megabazus as the governor/supreme commander of the united forces of the peoples of the Aegean (5.26.1), and subjugated Byzantium and other cities during the Ionian revolt (5.123.1, 5.116.1).

According to Herodotus:

This Otanes, then, who sat upon that seat, was now made successor to Megabazus in his governorship. He captured

Pelasgians.[1]

According to Herodotus, this Otanes also married one of Darius' daughters (5.116.1):

"Daurises, Hymaees, and Otanes, all of them Persian generals and married to daughters of Darius, pursued those Ionians who had marched to Sardis, and drove them to their ships. After this victory they divided the cities among themselves and sacked them."

— Herodotus 5.116[5]

"Otanes" is a name given to several figures that appear in the Histories of Herodotus. One or more of these figures may be the same person.

References

  1. ^ a b Perseus Under Philologic: Hdt. 5.25.1. Archived from the original on 2020-03-10. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
  2. ^ Herodotus, The Histories, Book 5, chapter 25.
  3. ^ Metropolitan Museum of Art
  4. ^ Thronus Iustitiae. British Museum.
  5. ^ Herodotus V, 116

Sources

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